OK - so how is it going for everyone who received and has implemented Ricks and Chris' Rules and Kill files? Did anyone combine them? Spam getting stopped dead in it's tracks?
-Don S. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott C. DeLucia > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 7:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Rules.ima > > Please send me a copy of the rules too! > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks! > > Scott > > > Rick Leske wrote: > > > Ralph A. Jones wrote: > > > >> Rick - > >> > >> I have been watching with some interest (or should I say dismay?) > >> your unanswered post in the Ipswitch iMail list/forum regarding > >> somebody sharing their rules.ima file. > >> > >> Did anybody respond to you privately? I just got started with > >> creating a rules.ima about a week ago and would be very interested in > >> seeing some of the filters other people are using. I will be glad to > >> share mine with you after a little more testing. I will probably > >> post it to the list just so other people can take pot shots at it or > >> offer additional suggestions. It is very much an elementary attempt > >> and definitely a work-in-progress, but it has "spambox'ed" a > >> significant amount of true spam and has only produced one false > >> positive so far. > >> > >> I can't believe no one has responded to your request to date. I draw > >> two conclusions from this: 1) iMail SysAdmins jealously guard their > >> rules.ima secrets; or, 2) everybody has bought "Declude" instead of > >> home brewing their own solution. > >> > >> If you did receive any private responses, are you willing to share? > >> Or simply post something back to the list if you got some good > >> suggestions. Thanks! > >> > >> =====> Ralph A. Jones > >> =====> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > > > > Hey Ralph, > > > > Yes someone did send me a rules.ima and even sent me a kill.lst file > > too. when i get to work i'll try to send them both to you. i've > > added a few lines into rules.ima also.. to help twart prono and > > spammers.. > > > > I can't remember the name of the person that sent it to me but it was > > a very well established. All i did was sort the file via command line > > like this sort <rules.ima > rules.txt then I checked for dupes and > > put the most needed rule(s) at the top of the list. deleted the old > > rules.ima then renamed the rules.txt to rules.ima. done the same with > > the kill.lst too. this way i can easily 'see' if the rule exsists or > > not. > > > > i don't think there are any secrets here.. especially with the > > rules.ima or kill.lst file.. i just wish that ipswitch would produce > > a faster i/o for the file because it can get quite large. > > > > what would be really grand and helpful to all would be that if we > > could get about 100 or so of these rules.ima files, merge them > > together, check for consistency.. then produce one KillerRules file. > > HA KillerRules ~ maybe i should trademark that?... ^(TM)KillerRules.. > > :-) > > > > tnx > > > > ~Rick > > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be > > removed from this list. > > > > An Archive of this list is available at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > ---------- > [This e-mail scanned by CompBiz for Viruses. http://www.CompBiz.Net] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
